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John Kinsella has published over seventy books of poetry, fiction, criticism, plays, edited works (such as The Penguin Book of Australian Poetry) and collaborative works. His many awards include the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry, the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry, the John Bray Award for Poetry, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry (twice) and the Western Australian Premier's Award for Poetry (three times). Recent books include Insomnia: Poems (2019), Cell night: A Verse Novel (2023), the poetry collection Argonautica Inlandica (2023),and the three volumes of his collected poems, The Ascension of Sheep(2022), Harsh Hakea (2023) and Spirals (2024). A frequent collaborator with other poets, writers, artists, musicians and thinkers, he lives on Ballardong Noongar land at ‘Jam Tree Gully' in the Western Australian wheatbelt. In 2007, he received the Christopher Brennan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry.